By Brad Bumsted and Walter F. Roche Jr. HARRISBURG — Two years after he stepped down as the nation’s first head of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge’s company, Ridge Global LLC, cosponsored a Washington event matter-of-factly titled "Accessing funds from the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security." The July 2007 event, detailed in [...]
By DORIAN DE WIND In my article “Another Innuendo Over a CBO Report: TRICARE For Life,” I pointed to a message from a “BG Bob Clements, USAF Ret (P38 Bob)” that is making the rounds through the internet, claiming: Seems as though our President Elect has placed a priority on cutting [TRICARE For Life] out [...]
U.S. Commander-in-Chief tells Al Arabiya peace talks should resume to Create Palestinian State "AMERICANS ARE NOT ENEMIES OF THE MUSLIM WORLD" DUBAI (Al Arabiya) – In his first interview with an Arab television station, United States President Barack Obama Monday told Al Arabiya that Americans are not the enemy of the Muslim world and said Israel [...]
VIDEO: 60 Minutes’ Bob Simon Exposes the Dirty Secret of Expulsion in the Name of Security Ethnic Cleansing and Apartheid in the Un-Holy Land by Johnny Punish, Artist and Writer The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation and movement of Native Americans from their homelands to Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma) in the Western United States. The [...]
by Tracy Bissonnette, , Brian’s Mom The 3rd Annual PFC Brian Moquin Memorial Motorcycle Ride & Benefit is scheduled for May 16, 2009, 11am-8pm with registration starting at 9am. It will be held again at the Kas Bar Sports Bar 234 SW Cut off Rte 20 Worcester, MA. The event is organized in memory of [...]
Elcan Optical Technologies, Richardson, Texas, is being awarded a ceiling $180,000,000 firm fixed price, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract for the procurement, delivery, maintenance, and logistical support of the Medium Range Thermal Bi-Ocular (MRTB). The MRTB is capable of providing an individual thermal imaging capability to the Marine Rifle Squad, Machine Gun Squad, and [...]
by Suzanne Bates Author of Motivate Like a CEO: Communicate your Strategic Vision and Inspire People to Act! All indications are that our new President has in mind a "New Deal" when it comes to Presidential communications. He certainly knows his way around the technology. He fought with government lawyers and security agencies to keep [...]
by Master Sgt. Kat Bailey, Air Force Personnel Center RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFNS) — Air Force Personnel Center officials here will begin to transfer health treatment records of retired and separated active, Guard & Reserve Airmen to the Department of Veterans Affairs Feb. 1. AFPC will become the central transfer gateway to improve [...]
Illnesses caused by Agent Orange raise concerns by Bruce Brown Take the test. That’s what veterans advocate Link Savoie has been saying for years to Vietnam veterans, like himself. For years he spoke to them about getting tested for possible damage caused by use of the defoliant Agent Orange. If you don’t get tested, Savoie [...]
WEEDING OUT “PTSD FAKERS” POLICY A FRAUD? WITHOUT “GROUND UP” REFORM AT THE VA, VETS WILL KEEP DYING By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER The VA loves tracking its success and patting itself on the back. It also loves stifling open discussion, punishing anyone who speaks up and hiding from Congress and the public what they [...]
From the ofiice of James P. Terry, Chairman of the Board of Veterans’ Appeals – Washington, D.C. 20420 The purpose of this memorandum is to lift a stay that was implemented at the Board of Veterans’ Appeals (BVA or Board), by direction of the Secretary, on the adjudication of cases affected by the decision issued by the [...]
ROUTE 9 VETERANS 2009 GUEST SCHEDULE Veteran’s TV Show -Produced by Bill Moore and Co-hosted by Larry Corbin Winners of the 2008 Rika Welsh Community Impact Award presented to “The Route 9 Veterans Forum Cable Access Show” November 15, 2008 who have generated a project – whose impact spoke directly to a clearer understanding of [...]
MOVE TO END INTERNET NEUTRALITY SEEN AS THREAT TO ORDINARY BLOGGERS by Sherwood Ross If the cable and phone companies that transmit Internet data are allowed to charge higher rates to some producers for faster service the result will be “a ten pin strike against political freedom,” a prominent legal authority warns. That’s because the change [...]
The veterans benefits claims process is a grueling one from what I’ve heard. Not only is having to revisit experiences of combat trauma difficult, trying to document each and every incident on the many claim forms you’ll need to fill out for the VA to get your benefits to kick in is anything but easy. [...]
by A Soldiers Mind When a National Guard unit deploys to a war torn country, they take with them, not only the skill set they were trained on in the military, but the often varied experiences and expertise from their civilian job as well. Some may be businessmen, students, doctors or nurses, lawyers or even [...]
Recently we were in contact with a Veterans Advocate calling for expanded AO benefits for Veterans who served in Korea during the Vietnam War. Currently the DVA pays Veterans who served in specific Army battalions on DMZ duty during 1968-69. What we found was typical DVA carelessness. Just as they were hoist by their own [...]
Today’s Local News for Veterans What’s Inside 1. Recent Senate Confirmations Noted. 2. Veterans’ Families Suffer From "Secondary PTSD." 3. Veteran Suffering From PTSD Buoyed By Inauguration. 4. US Troops Said To Need Thorough PTSD Screening 5. Canandaigua VAMC Seeking Private Developer For Housing Project. 6. Army: Alaska Territorial Guard Members Never Should Have Received Retirement Benefits. 7. Arizona Groups Celebrate Return [...]
THE “JOHN WAYNE” SYNDROME COMES HOME TO ROOST REMEMBRANCES OF A WAR LONG AGO By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER My good friend, author Tom Barnes, periodically submits articles here. Tom is a retired ‘Coastie’, former Jesuit and, probably, our most skilled contributor. His military experience covers an extensive period and includes years of drug interdiction [...]
by Andrew Higgins, Wall Street Journal Moshav Tekuma, Israel – Surveying the wreckage of a neighbor’s bungalow hit by a Palestinian rocket, retired Israeli official Avner Cohen traces the missile’s trajectory back to an "enormous, stupid mistake" made 30 years ago. "Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation," says Mr. Cohen, a Tunisian-born Jew [...]
By Sherwood Ross If America ever is going to stop making aggressive war, Americans will first have to get into contact with reality. That’s because U.S. administrations for the past century have periodically frightened the public out of their collective wits. And a frightened nation is a malleable nation, one whose people are susceptible to [...]
The world powers and their proxies are masters at destruction, but rebuilding is something they’ve never learned to do. By Saad Albazzaz The ruinous war over Gaza is over. Gaza and its 1.5 million people have borne the brunt of Israel’s disproportionate, reckless and massive use of fire power which killed more than 1,300, people [...]
With the Army Field Manual likely to become the new standard for interrogation, the truth behind it is more crucial than ever. By Jeffrey S. Kaye A January 17th New York Times editorial noted that Attorney General designate Eric Holder testified at his nomination hearings that when it came to overhauling the nation’s interrogation rules [...]
Among Iraqis, joy at the U.S. handover is tempered by doubts about the competence of its new guards. By Abeer Mohammed, Institute for War and Peace Reporting At the gates of the Green Zone every day, Marwa Yasin is greeted by a volley of suggestive remarks from the Iraqi guards who this month took over [...]
Israeli author warns that his country has made a tragic mistake: "This war is a crime against ourselves .. a crime against the State of Israel." The Blood-Stained Monster Enters Gaza By Uri Avnery, CounterPunch Nearly seventy ago, in the course of World War II, a heinous crime was committed in the city of Leningrad. [...]
An army investigator accuses KBR of negligent homicide. By ZP Heller, Brave New Films What’s it going to take for the Pentagon to revoke KBR’s multi-million dollar contract in Iraq? Will it be the company’s failure to ensure clean drinking water for US soldiers? Nope. How about the fact that they gave ice containing traces [...]
U.S. Soldiers Welcome New Chief By Paul the Spud, Shakesville There were cheers, whoops of joy and loud applause at U.S. military bases in Afghanistan today as soldiers welcomed in their new commander in chief, President Barack Obama. Soldiers at Camp Phoenix, a mainly U.S. base on the outskirts of Kabul, stood at attention as [...]
FOREIGN INDICTMENTS OF US LEADERS INSANITY TIME FOR STRAIGHT TALK, NOT POLITICS AND RETRIBUTION By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER Legal circles in Europe are actively moving to indict US leaders, including former President George W. Bush, for "waging aggressive war and crimes against humanity." The trials would require extradition to Europe and take place at [...]
BETWEEN THE LINES WINS BEST DOCUMENTARY AT X-DANCE FILM FESTIVAL DVD COMING APRIL 15TH by Ty, Scott and Troy, Film Makers Hello everyone. We are very pleased to announce that Between the Lines was the winner of the BEST DOCUMENTARY award and nominated for the BEST DIRECTOR award at the 2009 X-Dance Film Festival. X-Dance is [...]
By Turki al-Faisal In my decades as a public servant, I have strongly promoted the Arab-Israeli peace process. During recent months, I argued that the peace plan proposed by Saudi Arabia could be implemented under an Obama administration if the Israelis and Palestinians both accepted difficult compromises. I told my audiences this was worth the [...]
By R. Jeffrey Smith, Candace Rondeaux and Joby Warrick, Washington Post Staff Writers Two remote U.S. missile strikes that killed at least 20 people at suspected terrorist hideouts in northwestern Pakistan yesterday offered the first tangible sign of President Obama’s commitment to sustained military pressure on the terrorist groups there, even though Pakistanis broadly oppose [...]
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